Phone A Friend: Tad DeLay.
Welcome to Phone A Friend. Today we’re speaking with Tad DeLay, the author of the newly released book Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate...
SPACtacular Bullsh*t.
He did it again. The Donald pulled off yet another miracle by taking his (failing) social media platform public. The deal had been in the works for a...
Mental Health Care in America.
This week’s essay examines the connection between capitalism and declining mental health in the United States. From the pressure the system places on...
Phone A Friend: Nick Hanauer of Pitchfork Economics.
Max interviews Nick Hanauer, co-host of the Pitchfork Economics podcast and founder of Civic Ventures. They discuss Nick’s work at Civic Ventures to...
Understanding Socialism: Part Six.
The final, final (no really) installment in our series on socialism looks narrowly at the period between World War One and the Russian Revolution to...
Understanding Socialism: Part Five
This is technically the final installment of our series “Understanding Socialism,” where we cover the period between the Paris Commune in 1871 and...
What is Bidenomics?
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” “Is there life after death?” “If the POTUS says the economy is...
Understanding Socialism: Part Four.
It’s Part Four this week, and things are really heating up. We’re bridging the gap between the “critique” years and the “praxis” years with a deep...
Understanding Socialism: Part Three.
We have the third installment in our socialism series, where we resume our journey beginning in 1825 and the collapse of Robert Owen’s New Harmony...
Understanding Socialism: Part Two.
Believe it or not, we’re still not up to Karl Marx, because we’re mired in the turn of the 19th century. Part Two reveals the progenitors of...
Understanding Socialism: Part One.
This week on UNFTR we have the first in the series on socialism. After our “ISMs” refresher last week, we dip our toes into the communal water and...
Updated Tax Evasion Figures.
An explosive new report from the Bureau of Economic Research just landed, and it seems that no one in the media or political class cares. The report...
Has “Creative Destruction” Reached Silicon Valley?
Silicon Valley is in a slump. For all the talk about innovation, there’s a real question as to whether the U.S. tech sector is really all that...
Contagion!
What goes up, must come down. Unless you’re a banker. In which case it’s up, up and away with bailouts and low interest loans! Today’s essay is an...